Help test Ubuntu 10.10’s proposed network indicator applet [PPA]

The brave (and foolhardy) amongst you may wish to help test the Indicator Network applet being proposed for inclusion Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition.

Test it out in Lucid
You can test Indicator Network in Lucid by adding the following PPA. Bear in mind that the applet is very young, buggy & not intended as a stable replacement for the current Ubuntu default.

With that in mind you can install as follows: -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator-network-developers/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install indicator-network

The network menu uses ‘Connection Manager’ (Connman) rather than ‘network manager’ meaning in-order to test you will have to disable the current network applet so you need to disable Network Manager from starting during boot: -